COMMENT: I simply feel compelled to address the The Interview That Killed the Anti-Work Movement American people…..what has happened to your values? Has ambition disappeared entirely? To even think that my father left a communist country under horrific stress and difficulty with his wife and two children in tow and bring us here and to […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 284.64 points or 1.07% to 27,001.98 Shanghai closed Hang Seng increased 252.18 points or 1.07% to 23,802.26 ASX 200 decreased 16.50 points or -0.24% to 6,971.60 Kospi closed SENSEX increased 813.94 points or 1.42% to 58,014.17 Nifty50 increased 237.90 points […]

ASIA: India’s economic momentum remained stable in December even as the first signs of slowing output growth appeared across some industries. Activity in India’s dominant services sector expanded for the fifth month, and manufacturing for the sixth, although growth in new work and production lost some momentum, according to IHS Markit. While the composite index slipped to 56.4 […]

ASIA: China’s central bank cut its benchmark lending rates again on Thursday amid concerns about an economic slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. The People’s Bank of China reduced the one-year loan prime rate by 10 basis points from 3.8% to 3.7%. In December, the PBOC cut the one-year loan prime rate for the first […]

ASIA: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its FY22 gross domestic growth product (GDP) forecast for India to 9 percent from 9.5 percent predicted in October, citing disruptions due to the Omicron wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the multilateral agency raised the country’s GDP projection for FY23 to 9 percent from 8.5 percent […]

The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano was massive. It would have covered much of California engulfing from San Francisco down to Los Angeles. They are still trying to figure out how big this event was yet it was certainly one of the largest to have taken place in modern times. The Volcanic […]

  The Press is not reporting all the protests in Europe. Millions of people are now protesting in virtually every city throughout Germany. The number of protests throughout Germany is far too great to even list them all. Major protests are appearing in Brussels, Austria, France, and Italy while the media is pretending nothing is […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 250.67 points or -0.90% to 27,522.26 Shanghai decreased 32.49 points or -0.91% to 3,522.57 Hang Seng increased 13.20 points or 0.05% to 24,965.55 ASX 200 decreased 166.60 points or -2.27% to 7,175.80 Kospi decreased 28.39 points or -0.99% to 2,834.29 […]

China has asked the Fed to please not raise rates. This has confused many to wonder when China would be asking the Fed not to raise rates. The real reason is the crisis we have in emerging markets and the Sovereign Debt Crisis. Emerging Markets are one of the main victims of tightening US monetary […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 305.70 points or 1.11% to 27,772.93 Shanghai decreased 3.12 points or -0.09% to 3,555.06 Hang Seng increased 824.50 points or 3.42% to 24,952.35 ASX 200 increased 9.90 points or 0.14% to 7,342.40 Kospi increased 20.40 points or 0.72% to 2,862.68 […]